Mid Term Exam for Film and Culture

These are the words/phrases you must memorize for the Mid Term Test on Tuesday (April 15): western, leprechaun, picaresque, pay homage to, jukebox, scent, autistic, genre, misogyny, revenge, justice, twist of fate, is, eat, mythical, Oedipus Rex, to scalp (v.), society, character (in a story), snitch, jukebox, documentary, paragraph, sentence, colonel, respectful, amazing, Irish, plot, burn down

 

Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington starred in Training Day too, another film by the director of The Magnificent Seven

Western: means America or Europe

western: cowboy movie in the wild west

That’s the next genre.

To live in a civil society, we need justice.

In a civil society, people are nice to or respect people they do NOT know

People think revenge is the same as justice.

The director is African American. In history, black people had less justice than white people.

The Magnificent Seven. It is based on famous Japanese movie called The Seven Samurai. Kurosawa.

In 1849, gold was found in the wild west. People from all over the world came to look for it. In the 1850s, most of the people in Ireland moved to America.

Leprechaun: little magical guy in Irish stories

In the old cowboy movies before there was sound, they would show cowboys riding on the horizon far off to tell the audience time had passe